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Law Journal Publications & Book Chapters

Legal Consciousness and the Side Effects of Abortion Bans: Genetic Counselors’ Perspectives on Navigating Abortion Law in the Post-Dobbs Era (dissertation in progress)

 

Reversal of Roe v. Wade and Implications of Legal Restrictions for Neonatal Care, Current Opinion in Pediatrics, 2025 Apr 1; 37(2):165-172 (co-author Dr. Christine Bishop)

 

A Health Justice Approach to Abortion, 34 Health Matrix 261 (2024) SSRN

Centering Disability Rights in Challenges to Abortion Bans, JOTWELL (October 28, 2024), https://health.jotwell.com/centering-disability-rights-in-challenges-to-abortion-bans/

The Future of Abortion in a Post-COVID World, in Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 (Linda McClain & Aziza Ahmed, editors) (2024)

The Impact of Dobbs on Health Care Beyond Wanted Abortion Care, 51 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 592 (2023)

The Ripple Effects of Dobbs on Health Care Beyond Wanted Abortion Care, 76 SMU Law Review 77 (2023)

A New War on Drugs in the Post-Roe World, JOTWELL (March 28, 2023), https://health.jotwell.com/a-new-war-on-drugs-in-the-post-roe-world/

 

Commentary on Means v. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions (Seema Mohapatra & Lindsay F. Wiley, editors) (Cambridge University Press 2022)

 

Interjurisdictional Abortion Wars in the Post-Roe Era, JOTWELL (May 4, 2022), 

https://conlaw.jotwell.com/interjurisdictional-abortion-wars-in-the-post-roe-era/

 

Winning by Losing: Chief Justice Roberts’ Strategy to Eviscerate Reproductive Rights and Justice, Harvard Law & Policy Review (2020), https://harvardlpr.com/2020/08/10/winning-by-losing-chief-justice-robertss-strategy-to-eviscerate-reproductive-rights-and-justice/

Commentary on Dandridge v. Williams, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Family Law Opinions (Rachel Rebouche, editor) (Cambridge University Press 2020)

Rewritten Opinion, In re Madyun, in Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten (Kimberly Mutcherson, editor) (Cambridge University Press 2020) (also served as member of advisory board for this volume)

The Story of Madrigal v. Quilligan, in Law Stories: Reproductive Rights & Justice Stories (Melissa Murray, Kate Shaw & Reva Siegel, editors) (Foundation Press 2019) (draft chapter reviewed at https://equality.jotwell.com/resisting-attempts-to-control-the-hyper-fertile/)

Side Effects of the Abortion Wars, 38 Women’s Rts. L. Rep. 362 (2017), SSRN

Teenage Pregnancy, Parenting, and Abortion: Legal Limits on Adolescents’ Reproductive Rights, in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society (Austin Sarat, editor) (Vol. 72, pp.81-120, 2017)

Minors, Parents, and Minor Parents, 81 Missouri Law Review 127 (2016), SSRN

 

Commentary on Geduldig v. Aiello, in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Linda Berger, Bridget Crawford & Kathy Stanchi, editors) (Cambridge University Press 2016)

Book Review, J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, Regulating Desire: From the Virtuous Maiden to the Purity Princess, 34 Law & History Review 537 (2016)

Response: Griswold, Geduldig, and Hobby Lobby: The Sex Gap Continues, 69 University of Miami Law Review Caveat 17 (2015), http://lawreview.law.miami.edu/the-sex-gap-continues/

The Consequences of Abortion Restrictions for Women’s Healthcare, 71 Washington and Lee law Review 1317 (2014), SSRN

Lessons from Personhood’s Defeat: Abortion Restrictions and Side Effects on Women’s Health, 74 Ohio State Law Journal 75 (2013), SSRN         

Functional Parenting and Dysfunctional Abortion Policy: Reforming Parental Involvement Legislation, 

50 Family Court Review 241 (2012), SSRN

Irrational Women: Informed Consent and Abortion Regret, in Feminist Legal History: Essays on   Women and Law (Tracy A. Thomas & Tracey Jean Boisseau, editors) (NYU Press 2011), SSRN

Response, Hein and the Goldilocks Principle, 79 Mississippi Law Journal Supra 178 (2009)

Rights, Remedies and Facial Challenges, 36 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 611 (2009), SSRN

The Irrational Woman: Informed Consent and Abortion Decision-Making, 16 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 223 (2009) (Reprinted in Women and the Law, Tracy A. Thomas, editor, West 2011), SSRN

Privatizing Bans on Abortion: Eviscerating Constitutional Rights Through Tort Remedies, 80 Temple Law Review 123 (2007), SSRN 

Briefs, Op-Eds & Blog Posts

Brief of Amici Curiae National Health Law Program and National Network of Abortion Funds Supporting Petitioners-Cross-Respondents, June Medical Services v. Gee (U.S. Sup. Ct.) (co-authors Jill E. Adams, Sara Ainsworth, Abigail K. Coursolle, Yvonne Lindgren, Sarah Somers, Melanie R. Medalle) (filed December 2019): https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-1323/124217/20191203113334405_18-1323%20-1460%20tsac%20NHeLP--Corrected--PDFA.pdf

States Must Act Now to Protect Teenagers’ Reproductive Healthcare (May 2022):

https://msmagazine.com/2022/05/09/teenagers-abortion-parental-consent/

Op-Ed, Washington Post (co-author David Cohen) (December 2021): https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/12/13/what-justice-kavanaugh-gets-wrong-about-abortion-neutrality/

Dobbs and the Undue Burdens of Pre-Viability Abortion Bans (December 2021): https://www.scotusblog.com/2021/11/dobbs-and-the-undue-burdens-of-pre-viability-abortion-bans/

COVID Vaccine Prioritization and the Perils of Colorblind Constitutional Jurisprudence (co-author Seema Mohapatra) (April 2021): https://www.acslaw.org/expertforum/covid-vaccine-prioritization-and-the-perils-of-colorblind-constitutional-jurisprudence/

 

States Must Factor Race In COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization (co-author Seema Mohapatra) (April 2021):

https://www.law360.com/articles/1376135/states-must-factor-race-in-covid-19-vaccine-prioritization

 

Will Trump-Appointed Justices Strike Down the Affordable Care Act (November 2020):

https://msmagazine.com/2020/11/11/california-v-texas-trump-supreme-court-affordable-care-act/

 

Immigration Detention and Coerced Sterilization: History Tragically Repeats Itself (September 2020): https://www.aclu.org/news/by/maya-manian/

 

Reproductive Justice Under Assault at the Supreme Court (July 2020): https://msmagazine.com/2020/07/09/reproductive-justice-under-assault-at-the-supreme-court/

 

Will the Supreme Court Treat Birth Control as Essential Health Care? (May 2020):             https://msmagazine.com/2020/05/07/will-the-supreme-court-treat-birth-control-as-essential-health-care/

 

Eviscerating Access to Abortion Care Under Roe v. Wade, Gender Policy Report (March 2020): https://genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/eviscerating-access-to-abortion-care-under-roe-v-wade/

 

Protecting Abortion Rights After Whole Woman’s Health, JURIST (August 2016):

http://www.jurist.org/forum/2016/08/Maya-Manian-Protecting-Rights.php

Op-Ed, San Francisco Chronicle (December 2015):

http://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/Kennedy-likely-to-cast-deciding-vote-in-abortion-6690224.php

Undue Burdens on Abortion Rights, JURIST (December 2015):    

http://jurist.org/forum/2015/12/maya-manian-undue-burdens.php

Guest blogger, Health Law Prof Blog (November 2014):             http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/healthlawprof_blog/2014/12/thank-you-to-novembers-guest-bloggers.html

The Side Effects of Abortion Restrictions, Balkinization (January 2013):

https://balkin.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-side-effects-of-abortion_18.html

Perverting Informed Consent: The South Dakota Court Decision, Rewire (August 2012): https://rewire.news/article/2012/08/01/perverting-informed-consent-south-dakota/

Proposition 4: Constitutional Amendments for Sale, Rewire (November 2008):

https://rewire.news/article/2008/11/03/proposition-4-constitutional-amendments-sale/

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